BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Real Name: Myra Ellen Amos

Date of Birth: August 22, 1963

Place of Birth: Newton, North Carolina
(She now lives in London, England, but has a house in New Mexico.)

Marital Status: Married to sound engineer Mark Hawley

Actual Hair Color: Brown
(Pictures of a younger Tori reveal she's actually a brunette. In a on-line interview on Prodigy, Tori revealed the number and brand of hair dye she uses.)

Ellen Amos graduated in 1981 from :

    		Richard Montgomery High School
   		250 Richard Montgomery Drive
    		Rockville, Maryland 20852
    		(301)-279-8400
	
She is spoken of at times. During an English assignment to recite poetry, one kid recited the lyrics to "Silent All These Years" and mentioned that she was a 1981 RM graduate. A foreign language teacher once reminisced in class that she used to annoy everyone by singing all the time.

Her senior year, she was voted:

		Homecoming Queen
       	Most Likely to Succeed (female)
        	Most Talented (female)
       	Best All-Around (female)

TORI'S FATHER is Reverend Edison Amos, a second generation methodist minister of Scottish decent

TORI'S MOTHER is Mary Ellen Amos, granddaughter of a full-blooded Cherokee man

TORI'S BROTHER is Michael Amos (he did some guitar work on 'Baltimore')

TORI'S SISTER is Marie Amos, a "tone-deaf" internist

TORI'S GRANDMOTHER used to write young Tori letters with a heroine (named Annie) who was saving her virginity for her husband.